Meanwhile, TEPCO is still battling the contaminated water crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. It has 2,700 tons of radioactive rainwater in underground storage tanks and no solution for how to deal with it. “It remains unknown why radioactive water (previously) leaked from some of the underground tanks, and no measures have been taken so far. We have been demanding that (TEPCO) transfer (the contaminated rainwater) as soon as possible,” said a FukushimaPrefecture official. The water accumulated during two typhoons that hit the plant last month. TEPCO says its plan is to transfer the water from the tanks and into the basements of reactor #2 and #3's turbine buildings. However, rainwater and ground water have been flowing into the basements from elsewhere, filling them.

10 "experts" who joined different commissions related to nuclear industry failed to disclose that they received money contributions from various nuclear industry groups and related associations.
The undisclosed contributions amount to 40 million yen.
5 of the 10 "experts" were involved in the drafting of the new nuclear regulatory standard (*).
Experts joining several commissions are required to disclose all the contrbutions they received since 2009.
(source Jiji Press 2013/11/10-02:31 http://www.jiji.com/jc/eqa?g=eqa&k=2013110900206 in Japanese)
(*) the NRA decided not to call it "safety" standard

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(Unregistered) Beppe
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"Small debris might get in the way when extracting the fuel from the pool" according to plant chief Akira Ono. (Jiji Press http://www.jiji.c...

"Small debris might get in the way when extracting the fuel from the pool" according to plant chief Akira Ono. (Jiji Press http://www.jiji.com/jc/eqa?g=eqa&k=2013110600935&p=0131106at60&rel=pv 2013/11/06-20:20).
As far as I know, a fuel handling machine is sort of computer controlled crane that knows about the position of the fuel down to the millimeter.
Here are pictures of how unit 4 pool looked before its cleanup http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2013/images/handouts_120208_02-e.pdf